exordium
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Their invitation Dr. Fosdick expressed in a great exordium: The great east window of Chicago's Fourth Presbyterian Church has long needed proper furbishing in stained glass.
From Time Magazine Archive
I trembled violently at his exordium, and my father continued—
From "Frankenstein" by Mary Shelley
The purpose of the exordium is to put the audience into a receptive and attentive frame of mind.
From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith
These sermons were, as might indeed be expected, chiefly cast in a somewhat scholastic form—theme, exordium, development, example and peroration following in regular order.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 2 "French Literature" to "Frost, William" by Various
Humphrey had sat silent under this exordium, his head bent and his eyes on the ground.
From The Honour of the Clintons by Marshall, Archibald
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Rhetoric
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